Reply #47: such understandable things

[iverglas]

But then, since neither our firearms laws nor the Patriot act pertain to you directly, it's understandable that you would have difficulty with the concept of freedoms being equal.

Of course, that's just a bunch of words strung together to produce a package of drivel that makes no sense whatsoever.

(Since your laws don't apply to me it's understandable that I have difficulty with this bogus concept of yours? O-kaaay. The causal relationship here eludes me, but I'll bet that's understandable, to someone.)

Now, if I were to say:

But then, since what you appear to have been attempting to say would, if you had managed to say it, have demonstrated that you knew pretty much fuck all about the world outside your borders, it's understandable that I would point and laugh.

... well now, that one would make sense. If I said it.

"The concept of freedoms being equal" is about as meaningful as "the concept of colours being equal".

Are they "equal" as in they must not be discriminated against? Now that would make no sense, would it? Who ever heard of freedoms, or colours, being discriminated against? No orange allowed here!!

Are they "equal" as in "I like them all equally" or "I think they're all equally important"? Well, you may indeed. You may like orange as much as you like blue, too, and think that orange is as important as blue. Who cares? I detest orange and think the world could get along very well without it. And I'm perfectly free (heh heh) to think that so, and to think that some freedoms are just a little more important than others, if I happen to think that.

Of course, and not being wont to misquote or misconstrue Benjamin Franklin even if I cared what he'd said, I also recognize that security ("freedom from want, freedom from fear") is every single bit as important to human beings as any of your love-'em-all-equally freedoms might be.

You're entirely free to not give a shit about your own or anyone else's security, but since you don't actually rule the world, your opinion isn't all that important.